Combination shade bracket



Nov. 24, 1925- 5 0 A. E. PHIPPS COMBINATION SHADE BRACKET Filed Aug.1922 Patented Nov. 24, 1925.

ARTHUR Enwrn was. or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

cons-marrow SHADE BRACKET.

Application filed ugust 26, 1922; Serial No. 584,589.

To all whom may concern:

Be it known. that I, ARTHUR E. PHIPPS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in CombinationShade Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtain fixtures, and more particularly tocombined shade roller brackets and curtain supports of a character suchthat there shall be a SlliClZlblG adjustment of the shade roller andcurtain holding means which will readily adapt my invention for use towindows of varying sizes.

One of the objects of my invei i-tion is, to provide means in a deviceof tl iischaracter, by which a shade roller and curtain holding devicecan be readily and conveniently mounted to a window casing in such amanner that the shade roller and curtain holding parts shall have alaterally adjustable facility which will enable shade rollers andcurtains of varying sizes to be conveniently and, operably mountedtherein and which also permits an adjustment of these parts to and fromthe window frame and casing, in order to properly mount shade rollers ofdifferent diameters and position curtains at different distances from awindow frame. Another object is to provide a device of this characterwhich shall be of few parts, of simple construction of the desiredadjustability and which may be readily attached to or detached from awindow casing and which may have other advantages and results notspecifically set forth, but which may appear in the followingspecification.

Referring to the drawings in which like numerals of reference indicatecorresponding parts Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my device applied toa window casing.

Fig. 2 is an end View looking in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detailed perspective view of the supporting bracket andmeans to lock a slidable supporting bar therein.

Referring more particularly to the drawings 1 is the casing of thewindow, and to this I securely mount supporting brackets 2 by screws 3,or other suitable fastening means, inserted into openings 1- provided inan angularly bent portion or foot 5 of the brackets 2- The brackets 2are, on opposite distances from the foot or base 5.

edges, provided with downwardly bent parallel flanges 6, in which areopposite pairs of slots 7 and 8, disposed at different I so proide theseslots 7 and 8 in order to differently position from the window orcasing, a supporting bar 9-, which I insert therein and adapt it to.have a slidable relation there to, in order to permit of the mounting ofrollers of different lengths and diameter and to differently position acurtain close to or further from a window frame. This bar 9 ispreferably of metal and of substantially rectangular cross sectionalshape, corre sponding to the shape of the slots 7 and: 8 in which it isadapted to move; In the bracket I provide threaded opening 10 into whichI insert the screw stop 11, which is adapted to clamp; the supportingher 9 and lock it in any position of adjustment in reference to thebracket 2'. A similar aperture 10 is provided in which a screw,similarto that indicated at 11 may be inserted to lock the supportingbar 9 when it is placed in the slots corresponding in position to; thisaperture. Near the: outer end of the supporting bar 9? I provide adepending bracket 12,'havin-g a slot or aperture 13, adapted to receiveand hold the pivot or pin 1a, on which the curtain roller 15 is adapted?to rotate. Gnc of these brackets mounted on the bar 9 is provided withthe usual central aperture for the reception of one of the shade rollerpivots while that mounted on the bar 9 provided to carry the oppositeend of the roller, is provided with a closed ended longitudinal slotwhich receives the pivot at that end of the roller containing the rolleractuating spring. This pivot end may be operably mounted therein byslidably moving the bar 9 in its supporting bracket 2 until the pivothead registers in this slot and is securely held between its sides.Other than this difference, the members of my apparatus are alike forthe opposite sides of the window casing, on the opposite sides of which,one each of the supporting brackets 2 is mounted carrying the slidablesupporting bar 9. The brackets 12 are suitably fastened to thesupporting bar 9 by screws, bolts 16 or any other suitable fasteningmeans. At the extreme end of the supporting bars 9 which carries thebrackets 12 I provide a laterally outwardly extending arm 17 which ismade up of a pair of expansible and compressible spring fingers 1?,These spring fingers are securely held at their inner ends in the properoperative position to the bar 9 by screws or bolts 18 or any othersuitable fastening means. These spring fingers are provided toconveniently and removably carry and support a curtain holder 19, whichis provided with a tubular end portion 20 adapted to encase the springfingers 17'" and be held thereon by the gripping action. of thesefingers in such a manner as will effect a secure retention of thecurtain holder, and which will at the same time permit of the readyremoval of the curtain holder when a curtain is not desired to be heldthereby. The curtain holder 19 at its outer end of a usual type, beingprovided with a loop or hook like portion for the convenient receptionof a curtain pole or other curtain earrying member.

It will be understood that my device is intended to be formed in twoseparately applicable sections, one of which is positioned at theopposite lateral sides of a window casing. Since windows are. of varyingwidth, it will be apparent that by reason of the lateral adjustabilityof my supporting bar 9 in the bracket 2, when the bracket 2 ispositioned I can adapt my apparatus to the holding of shade rollers orcurtain carrying members of varying lengths. It will also be obviousthat when the supporting bar 9 is placed in proper position to hold ashade roller, it may be locked thereat by tightening the screw 11 in thebracket 2. It is. also obvious that because I have provided two pairs ofslots in the bracket, 2 at different distances from its foot or base, Ican by inserting the supporting arm 9 in one or the other pairs of theseslots, position the shade roller holding means at different distancesfrom the window casing so that rollers of different diameters may beconveniently held to the window, and curtains may be arranged. atdifferent dis tances therefrom.

It will be obvious from the foregoing that I have provided a device forholding shade rollers and curtains that is of few parts, of compactconstruction, simple and easy of operation and attachment for use, andwhich is capable of a wide degree of adjustability in order touniversally adapt my fixture to use upon windows of any dimension, andwhich has other advantages and results not herein specifically setforth.

Although I have shown and described one form of embodiment of myinvention yet I do not wish to be limited thereby for it is obvious thatchanges may be made in the arrangement, combination construction andorganization of )arts without departing from the scope o my invention.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is A combination shade bracket comprising anattaching member having a horizontally extending body portion, dependingflanges along the side edges of said body portion, said flanges providedwith a plurality of pairs of aligning openings, and a carrying baradjustable through an aligning pair of said openings and movable fromone pair of openings into the other to regulate the distance outwardlyfrom the wall to which the bracket is attached.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ARTHUR EDWIN PHIPPS.

